outing

A pleasure trip or excursion.

Noun

  1. A pleasure trip or excursion.
    • This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months. - 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
  2. A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
    • The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise. - 2012, BBC News, Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen Ginsberg:
    • Other erstwhile stalwarts are also wavering. Southampton had two of the best full-backs in the league last season but Ryan Bertrand has been below par this season and Cédric Soares made an uncharacteristic lapse that...
  3. The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.
    • Advocates for gay and lesbian issues suggest the increase in discharges reflects the hostility of the military towards homosexual soldiers and a growing number of "forced outings" of gay and lesbian troops. - 2006,...
  4. The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.

Origin

From out + -ing. Compare Old English yting ("outing, journey").

Forms

outings

Derived

outing flannel

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of out

Related

X-outing